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I would advise the younger you to change your underpants, and not to let those boys do the talking for you.
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Sometimes when I fall I see a ...
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. . . how a body calls
in the dark. . .
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We talk of his time in the jungle.
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It's as if the house knew I was relinquishing my hold on it.
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In his heyday, Burt Reynolds owned $100,000 worth of custom-made toupees.
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Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
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In the state that the stars fell on,
Love and I stumbled upon bits of God
where he forgot sky and moon, too.
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It is easy to look out on the Bowery and say, "There are the bums." Encountering one, however, even one who asks to "bum a quarter" or tells you he's "on the bum" the word "bum" slips away in one's mind...
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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He looked like a black paper doorway pasted onto a painting of summer.
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A hinge in my heart is broken.
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an engine stalls out
in the parking lot
the driver
tears her skirt
coming through the door
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Your brother is not really blind.
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The spectacle of weather/
on the prairies approaches.
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The last chick in the nest
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Monday will come soon enough to get/
what needs to be done, done.
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He rolls in unbidden across the stubble fields /
Old acquaintance astride a newly booming cloud/
Under sky an alien shade of strawberries whipped/
Her watch stops ticking out the rest of her/
scheduled breathing poses
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She's an obese woman whose clothes don't fit: shirts that ride up too high her belly hanging out her pants suctioned to her strangely pegged legs. Her ballooned cheeks are always chapped pink her lips little slivers peeled back over small beige teeth like…
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She thinks this is the place she dreamed
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Osama couldn’t see any reason he shouldn’t retire. No way he could top BP Oil in the Gulf or Pacific Gas & Electric in San Bruno.
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Esmée sat alone at a table on the terrace at Marina Jack’s in Sarasota. She had been there ten minutes and no waitress had approached her.
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the honesty of bodies & the lies hidden under skin.
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The smell of garlic, soy, and onions/
exhausted from Skillman Wok/
perfumes December air.
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You think there’s a chance the bag could be holding a severed head, or live or dead kittens.
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“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so
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sometimes it's hard/ to leave the house in the morning/ when bed is so comfortable/ and you're so far away.
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